As the American election approaches, I think political blogs are going to be quite influential. We've already seen how they are a force in the Democratic primary. As more politically active bloggers report, passionately, on their politics, the real battle is going to not be in the blogsphere, but the “Googlesphere”. Who can get their…
A newspaper in Spokane, WA is successfully selling ads on it's blog and recruiting local bloggers (by posting a bio and link to their blog). This could be start of newspapers and other traditional media using blogs to gain online readers. Rick E. Bruner's Business Blog Consulting: Poynter: Newspaper Blogs and Making Money
Although I signed up to view the BlogOn 2004 webcasts, I never did. I have been tracking the posts from the BlogOn blog, though. This morning both eWeek and C|Net had articles on BlogOn. The big story is that businesses are blogging. Microsoft has the very successful Channel 9 and most every new software company…
I started to post about one part of today's updates, but on reading the whole page I think there's too much to focus on one component. Today's news covers: Making the business case to telework and technology investments Satelite broadband “Telework malaise”…I think that can be summed up with “some folks still don't get it”…
I've used Skype only once I think. The concept is good, the problem is that Skype becomes yet another IM-like tool. I feel that I can keep only so many apps like this running on my machine at one time. I have three apps like this running right now :Convoq ASAP, Chatango, and Miranda (for…
Interesting stats here showing the popularity of blogging world-wide. The only (small) flaw in the logic is Blogspot might be considered American. And while the company is American, non-Americans do use it. Like I said, small flaw. The important point here is the power of blogging in freedom of information and democracy. Since it is…
This seems so much like Prohibition that it isn't even funny. P2P networks are a tool. A tool that, granted, is being used for some not good things. Trying to ban something like this just won't work. Groove is a P2P network. One could shuttle all kinds of information, completely encrypted, to a group of…
Michael's analysis of this reports sounds very interesting. It's on the top of the pile to read tomorrow. I think the fragmentation of IM has to end. I think in order for IM to be excepetionally useful either everybody has to get a Yahoo, MSN, AIM, IRC, ICQ, etc. ID our we figure out how…
Amy Gaharan with a collection of more Furl tips and tricks. Oddly enough I flip-flop between Furl and PDF. I often PDF whitepapers or articles I've found. I just went up to Furl and found how many interesting articles I had stashed up there. I need to work Furl more into my whole knowledge management…
Great notes from Michael this afternoon. I actually talked with Michael on the phone today. It was great to have a voice to go with the posts. We share very similar interests in technology and collaboration software. I hope I have the opportunity to chat more with him (at least via e-mail) I recommend the…
